Francesco Cecchin

Francesco Cecchin (2 November 1961-16 June 1979) was an Italian Social Movement member who was murdered during the "Years of Lead".

Biography
Francesco Cecchin was born in Nusco, Campania, Italy in 1961, and he joined the FUAN youth wing of the Italian Social Movement. On 28 May 1979, while posting FUAN posters with four other friends, he got into a heated discussion with Italian Communist Party student activists, and he was threatened. That same evening, he went out with his sister to go out for dinner, and they were chased to a friend's residence by leftist militants. He was shot in the courtyard, and he died in a coma on 16 June.